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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Rocket Up on Overseas Optimism

The Japanese Nikkei index rose +6% off 18-month lows overnight, on hopes that bilateral trade talks between the U.S. and Japan are underway.

Mark Vickery

Markets Mellow as Talks About Trade Talks Commence

Market participants began to see some dialogue on the tariff beat, with certain countries willing to state publicly they are ready to negotiate trade levels with the U.S.

John Blank

The First Q1 Earnings Land: Global Week Ahead

Global investors have yearned for clarity over President Trump's tariffs. But now they have it, and don't much like what they see.

Mark Vickery

Tariff Saga Starts 2nd Week, Pre-Markets Down Big Again

The American indexes are now reverberating off the market reactions around the world.

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Another -2% on Good Jobs Report

China has fire a retaliatory shot in the tariff war begun on the White House lawn Wednesday.

Mark Vickery

Markets Tank on Tariff Policy; Services PMI and Guess? Beat

Tariffs being slapped onto the U.S.'s trading partners all on the same day has only increased the levels of uncertainty for market participants.

Mark Vickery

Tariff Policies Send Pre-Market Futures Down -4%

Economists agree this is unlike any tariff policy in U.S. history.

Mark Vickery

Trump's Tariff Policies Sink Late Trading: QQQ -3%

There is a new effective tariff rate on dozens of countries: China +34%, Taiwan +32%, South Korea +25% and Japan +24%, to name but a few.

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Again on "Liberation Day"

Economic conditions are different today than they were back when President Trump first levied tariffs against China in 2018.

Mark Vickery

Markets Turn Positive Late, a Day Ahead of Tariffs

Will it be blanket tariffs or custom carve-out rates for certain goods from certain countries, or perhaps multi-tiered tariff rates? No one knows.